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Ancient Textiles from the Andes

29 March - 15 September 2019
This is a rare opportunity to see ancient Andean textiles of this quality and size exhibited in the UK. Through a major loan from the collector Paul Hughes, alongside pieces from the…

CGP Research Cluster with Debbie Lisle: Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb disposal robot

15:30 - 17:00 15 May 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Debbie Lisle's 'Making Safe: the dirty history of the bomb disposal robot'. Debbie Leslie is a Professor in the School of History, Anthropology,…

CIDRAL Book Launch

17:00 - 19:30 15 May 2019
Please join us to celebrate publications from colleagues in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures this semester.

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 15 May 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from February! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

D&E Cluster Seminar with Sarah Liu: Limited Democracy? The Impact of Democratization on Women's Political Participation

15:30 - 17:00 15 May 2019
Democracy is believed to be more representative and inclusive than other forms of government and is generally coveted by the public. Gender equality is also considered as a core component…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

Dance for Parkinson's

10:00 - 12:00 15 May 2019
Dance for Parkinson’s Wednesdays, 10am – 12pm 8, 15, 22 May and 5 12, 19 June. £4 per session. Booking Essential. Brought to the Whitworth from the English National Ballet, Dance…

Diffusions and PDEs on Wasserstein Space

14:00 - 15:00 15 May 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Probability and statistics seminar series. By solving image dependent SDEs, diffusion processes are constructed on the Wasserstein space.…

English Corner

10:30 6 October 2017 - 12:00 31 May 2019
Fourth Friday of each month 10.30am–12pm Monthly conversation classes for people who are learning to speak English. Free, no need to book

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer

22 February - 2 June 2019
An exhibition of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers together with their choice of artworks from The Whitworth collections. The portraits have been created in…

Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

23 June 2018 - 3 November 2019
A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka’bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction…

Genericity of o-minimality for smooth functions

15:00 - 16:00 15 May 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Logic seminar series. We give an explicit condition on the Taylor developments of a smooth real valued function \(f\) defined on a compact…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege

11 April - 2 October 2019
Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege exhibition, developed in collaboration with The Partition Museum in India. This commemorative exhibit gives voice to the untold stories of…

Joy for Ever: How to use art to change the world and its price in the market

29 March - 9 June 2019
In 1857 John Ruskin (1819-1900) delivered one of his most important public lectures in response to the Great Art Treasures exhibition in Manchester, the largest art exhibition ever…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 15 May 2019
Vincent Lorant, Université Catholique de Louvain Ego-net consortium (François Wyngaerden, Pablo Nicaise, Hélène Garin, Sébastien d'Oreye de Lantremange, Sébastien Combéfis, Vincent…

One Giant Leap: Talk and Tour

9 May - 5 September 2019
One Giant Leap:Jodrell Bank and the Race to the Moon July 2019 will mark 50 years since humans first set foot on another celestial body. In this, the 50th anniversary year of the moon…

Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil

7 July 2018 - 4 August 2019
Francesco José de Goya Lucientes (1746-1828) and William Hogarth (1647-1764) were the most remarkable artists of their times. Both were famous painters, but their most compelling works…

Professor Liam Harte's Inaugural Lecture, 'Irish Autobiography: Singular Lives, Plural Selves'

17:30 - 19:00 15 May 2019
You are invited to attend Professor Liam Harte's Inaugural Lecture, 'Irish Biography: Singular Lives, Plural Selves'. Despite being an ancient and widespread practice in Irish culture,…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Liam Harte, 'Irish Autobiography: Singular Lives, Plural Selves'

17:00 - 19:00 15 May 2019
Despite being an ancient and widespread practice in Irish culture, autobiography has received far less critical attention than the nation’s poetry, drama and prose fiction. This lecture…

SHORT COURSES: Introduction to Data Analysis 1

15 May 2019
This course provides an introduction to the theory and methods of quantitative data analysis, focusing on the social survey. It has an emphasis on hands-on learning, with a series of…

Stars and Stones

3 April - 4 September 2019
Stars and Stones offers a rare opportunity to explore The Blackden Trust and Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre on the same day. You’ll have the chance to discover the science and the stories…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 15 May 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

Who Cares? - 'A growing collection of stories about people caring for nature across Greater Manchester.'

2 May - 31 July 2019
A growing collection of stories about people caring for nature across Greater Manchester. A Heritage Futures Studio Residency at Manchester Museum 29th April - 31st July 2019 In…

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